FARIAS, M. P.; FARIAS, Marta Pereira de.
Resumen:
Since the 1980s, several researches have been carried out in Brazil using the CPT / CPTU test. However, most of this research was carried out on soft clay deposits. This research work aims to present and
discuss the results of a CPT testing campaign, carried out in a deposit of sandy soil on the coastal strip of the city of Maceió (AL). In this research, the results of CPT were compared with the results of SPT and load test tests. There was also an attempt to estimate the CPTSPT correlation constants, K and a. The results of the CPT tests demonstrated that the The classification and the empirical correlations that exist for the estimation of most of the geotechnical parameters of the studied deposit are adequate. It is concluded that the results obtained with the CPT allowed a good estimate of the support capacity of piles for most of the calculation methods used.